But this is not because everyone gets to open presents brought by Santa Claus all year round – it's more much commercial than that.

Two hours by train from Shanghai lies the market town of Yiwu in Zhejiang province. A holiday shopper’s paradise, it is filled with storefront vendors selling all manner of small commodities, but it's biggest business is Christmas.

A man wearing a Christmas hat works at a factory producing Christmas decorations in Yiwu, Zhejiang province

A woman in Yiwu market works on a computer at a Christmas decoration shop

A vendor in Yiwu stands at the entrance of his Christmas decoration shop next to plastic Santa Claus toys

The International Business Times reported the stalls at Yiwu's indoor market is overflowing with trees, lights, decorations, tinsel, bows and just about everything connected to the festive season. Unlike the rest of the world, it’s almost a year-round business for Yiwu Christmas market vendors.

It's so large that the market will take more than a day to walk around, and to say that the traders here sell in bulk is an understatement.

According to a report by Chinese website Sina News, Yiwu produces about 60 per cent of the world’s Christmas decorations and more than 90 percent of China’s Christmas decorations.

For other Christmas decoration factories and retailers in China, Christmas starts as early as July and ends in late September, when massive orders from around the world flood in.

Orders come from places as far away as Europe, the United States and South America. This year however, European demand for Christmas goods has dropped sharply, local vendors said. One estimated European orders were down 20 percent from last year, while another said his European orders had fallen by 40 percent.

According to Sina, the vice chairman for the Yiwu Christmas Products Industry Association, Cai Qingliang, said that although overseas sales have dwindled this year, domestic orders have increased.

A man walks past a Christmas decoration advertisement on the wall of a shop in Yiwu, Zhejiang province

Plastic Santa Claus toys are displayed at a Christmas shop in Yiwu's commercial district